It has also been uploaded to CTAN and should in due time be made available there. At the current point of time, it will probably just be available from SourceForge, but that should change soon.
Particularly noteworthy for LyX developers: The preview.dtx style has been updated to include an option "counters". This option will issue diagnostics at the start and end of previews that output the settings of all current counters (or rather those that changed since the last diagnostic). The intention is to make it possible to keep things like equation numbers reasonably correct on updates. The usefulness of this option is probably greater where a document is processed in its entirety rather than when LyX pushes single previews through preview.sty, since in the latter case passages affecting counters are left out. The Debian package for preview-latex (here still based on 0.7.3) has recently been split into a preview-latex and a preview-latex-styles package. LyX users will need only the latter package for their preview functionality. With RedHat Linux, installing the preview-latex-common package will achieve the same, although it also installs info files and general documentation that is needed only for the operation with Emacs or XEmacs. A separate RPM containing only the style files has not been made up to now, since demand for it has not been voiced, and since it is not entirely clear what naming/dependency scheme would be best to keep things reasonably simply also for Emacs users and which would avoid unnecessary downloads of packages that users find out later conflict with others. The following are the RELEASE notes which I send here unedited, even though probably mostly the download locations will be of interest for LyX users. I apologize for the inconvenience. If you think this a problem, please contact me by mail so that a different arrangement might be made. Thanks, Release notes for version 0.7.4 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by placing judiciously selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy preview pages right into its Emacs/XEmacs buffer, while keeping the original source readily accessible. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX (11.11 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. This version also supports XEmacs-21, best in version 21.4.9 or later. The various Windows ports of XEmacs should work out of the box. Recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs could conceivably be made to work, too, but the jury is still out on that one. Release 0.7.4 is a consolidation release containing mostly bug fixes. Several interoperatibility problems under Windows and with various GhostScript versions have been dealt with. The previous release lead to problems when buffers without associated file name were put into LaTeX-mode. If this occured while first loading preview-latex, compatibility macros caused further problems with XEmacs. As a promotional measure, preview-at-point has been added to the tool bar. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest 11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning preview-latex, you can find it there as well. * RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in current distributions. RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be recommended. Later releases should work fine. XEmacs in current distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
